On Wednesday, in his new role as general manager of the Oakland Raiders, Mayock was limited to 15 minutes on the podium.

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LaFleur helped develop quarterback Jared Goff and an offense that led the NFL in scoring in 2017. But McVay was the play-caller and, presumably, will be as long as he wears a sideline headset. The Titans interviewed LaFleur for their vacant head coach job that ultimately went to Mike Vrabel, , but Vrabel offered LaFleur a chance to join his staff as a play-caller.

LaFleur said Wednesday that it was difficult to leave his friend McVay on both a professional and personal level. And he recognized how good the Rams would be in 2018.

“I didn’t want to necessarily leave, but I felt like just from a professional standpoint it’s something I needed to do,” he said. “Kind of get out of my comfort zone a little bit and go out and call plays and try to learn as much as I can.”

After one season with the Titans, who finished 9-7, the Packers came calling.

Asked if the affiliation with McVay helped LaFleur’s cause, Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst said his interest was based more on LaFleur’s cumulative work, and on interviews with people who knew him.

“I thought it said a lot too that he could have stayed in L.A., but he wanted to call plays and went to Tennessee and had to do some things differently there with that personnel group,” Gutekunst said.

LaFleur has worked with quarterbacks such as Goff, Matt Ryan and Marcus Mariota. Now he is coaching a team that features future Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers.

LaFleur said he would call on all of his experiences, noting that in 2015 he built a relationship with another veteran in Ryan.

“It’s a process, but one that I’m looking forward to,” he said. “I’ve had a couple opportunities to talk to Aaron just on the phone, just to get know each other.

“I know the guy wants to win, and I want to win. And I think we’re going to have a lot of fun working together.”

Taylor also is in charge of team with a veteran quarterback in Andy Dalton.

Taylor coached in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins and in college at Cincinnati before he joined McVay’s staff. The culture McVay built, the relationships he forged, and the scheme he installed all affected Taylor in positive ways.

“Whether it leads to you getting a job or not, I don’t know, it’s not for me to say,” Taylor said. “I do know that I believed in everything that was part of the process that [McVay] had gotten started there and we all believed in it — that’s why you go to the Super Bowl.

“When you believe in a process and when you’re in a [job] interview and you’re talking about what you lived for two years, that’s an easy thing to talk about.”

Duke Tobin, the Bengals’ director of player personnel, said when the franchise decided to interview Taylor, it was not looking at him solely as a product of his coaching associates.

“Obviously, they’ve had offensive success in L.A.,” Tobin said. “I think elements of that will come with Zac, but it will be the Bengals’ offense as we go forward.”

LaFleur and Taylor have spent the last few weeks putting the finishing touches on their staffs and preparing for the combine, free agency and the draft.

During the upcoming season, the Rams are scheduled to play the Bengals in London at a date to be determined. Taylor said he has not had time to consider what it will be like to coach against McVay in his first season.

“I’ll be able to better answer that when we get closer to the day,” he said. “Right now, there’s so much else to focus on.”